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Archaeology
is a strongly multidisciplinary field that seeks to illuminate the
lives of people in the past, while recognizing its data are always
incomplete and subject to multiple interpretations. As such, it
is eminently suitable as a tool to encourage students critical thinking
about the construction of the past, in addition to building skills
that will enable students to meet the standards developed by the
History-Social Science Standards Committee of the Oakland Unified
School District (OUSD).
The
ARF-Oakland Project works in collaboration with a teacher advisory
board to allow us to tailor our projects to the specific needs of
those educators and their classes. Teacher training and professional
development, curriculum development and design, and an after-school
program utilizing archaeology-themed activities and computer games
are some of the efforts supported by the Project.
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